From: PaksPlace@aol.com [mailto:PaksPlace@aol.com]
  Sent: Friday, December 19, 2003 5:38 AM
  To: help@sec.gov
  Subject: S7-19-03 Protect my pension and my medical/dental benefits


  In 1998 I was forced to take early retirement from my job in research at the 
University of Cincinnati, College of Medicine.

  Dear Secretary Jonathan G. Katz: 

  I am writing you to express my support for the adoption of SEC proposal
S7-19-03 to allow shareholders to nominate candidates for election to corporate 
boards.

  The corporate pirates at Enron, WorldCom, Tyco and other companies, have 
already caused my pensioner OPERS to switch me from my excellent Delta Dental 
provider to the grossly inferior Aetna Dental. The result being the past two 
years I have paid out of pocket over $10,000 for necessary dental care and that 
is half my annual pension! 

  Additionally, this July my pharmacy HMO informed me of a change of policy 
related to my sleeping medication, effective August 2003, I was advised I would 
be permitted to have 60 pills every 90 days! 

  I was devastated since it took me four miserable sleepless years working 
diligently with my physician to find the right medication to finally allow me 
a decent night's sleep. 

  This month I received another letter notifying me that in 2004 the pain 
medication I have been taking will no longer be covered, except as a generic 
equivalent! I have tried the generic equivalent and it was not as effective 
as the brand name which is why I have been paying the extra money to have the 
brand drug!

  Here now I am suffering the daily stress of being faced again with a future 
of sleepless nights and daily pain -- a situation which five years ago led me 
to contemplate suicide!

  Shareholders must be able to nominate directors at the earliest possible 
annual meeting, when the company is in crisis and shareholder value is 
immediately threatened such as in the Enron and WorldCom scandals.

  These directors of companies and their boards have not only lost sight of
the fact that shareholders are the true owners of the companies, but also, 
that their decisions affect the quality of life of their shareholders. These 
are literally life and death decisions!  

  I feel strongly that the proposed rule in support of real director elections 
will go a long way in providing people like myself some control over their 
quality of life and length of life! I need not tell you how important it is to 
the emotional well being of an individual to feel they have control over their 
daily lives.

  Please, help me to continue to live the quality of life it has taken me and 
my doctor years to achieve - by assuring me the ability to have a good night's 
sleep, the teeth to eat the foods I want and the means to live pain free. 

  Stop this madness, by providing millions of shareholders like myself control 
over our quality of life! 

  My life and the lives of millions depends on you!

  Respectfully,

  Peggy Campbell
  3176 Goda Avenue
  Cincinnati, Ohio 45211
  (513)662-2243